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BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICE  OF  ALBERT  HENRY  SMYTH. 

By  JOSEPH  G.  ROSENGARTEN. 

( Read  May  17,  1907.) 

Albert  Henry  Smyth  was  elected  a member  of  the  American 
Philosophical  Society  on  May  20,  1887.  He  has  been  continuously 
active  and  useful  in  it.  At  the  request  of  the  President  this  brief 
statement  of  Professor  Smyth’s  life  and  work  is  presented  in  ac- 
cordance with  our  custom. 

He  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on  June  18,  1863,  and  was  educated 
at  the  George  G.  Meade  Public  School,  graduated  in  the  June  ’82 
class  of  the  Philadelphia  High  School,  was  the  valedictorian,  and 
encouraged  by  the  then  President  Dr.  Riche  and  Professor  Taylor, 
later  President,  went  to  Johns  Hopkins  University,  Baltimore,  where 
he  received  a Master  of  Arts  degree  “ causa  honoris,”  in  1886, — it 
was  his  thesis  for  his  M.A.  degree,  “ Shakespeare’s  Pericles  and 
Apollonius  of  Tyre,”  that  rewritten  and  with  large  additions,  he 
read  before  this  Society.  It  is  printed  in  our  Proceedings,  and 
earned  praise  for  its  research  on  a recondite  subject. 

His  services  to  this  Society  were  constant  and  valuable, — he 
was  one  of  its  curators,  a member  of  the  Library  Committee,  repre- 
sented it  at  the  University  of  Glasgow  on  its  forty-fifth  anniversary, 
and  at  the  dedication  in  Paris  of  the  Statue  of  Franklin,  the  gift 
of  John  H.  Harjes,  a former  resident  of  this  city, — on  that  occasion 
too  by  the  appointment  of  the  President  of  the  United  States,  he 
was  the  representative  of  this  country,  and  his  address  received  the 
well  deserved  praise  of  all  his  auditors  and  readers,  among  them 
many  of  the  foremost  representatives  of  French  eloquence  and 
learning.  His  addresses  at  the  annual  celebration  of  this  Society 
were  always  noteworthy,  and  his  last  appearance  at  the  general 
meeting  in  April  of  this  year,  shortly  before  his  untimely  death,  was 
warmly  welcomed. 

His  printed  works  include  a sketch  of  “ American  Literature,” 

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published  in  1888;  “Philadelphia  Magazines  and  Their  Contribu- 
tors,’’  1892 ; “ Bayard  Taylor  ” in  “ American  Men  of  Letters  ” 
series,  1896;  “ Shakespeare’s  Pericles  and  Apollonius  of  Tyre,”  1898. 
He  was  the  founder  and  editor  of  “ Shakesperiana,”  and  was 
thoroughly  imbued  with  knowledge  and  love  of  the  great  dramatist ; 
he  edited  “ Burke’s  Letter  to  a Noble  Lord,”  1898,  and  “ Pope’s 
Homer’s  Iliad,”  1899,  and  he  was  a frequent  contributor  to  maga- 
zines and  newspapers.  His  papers  were  like  his  popular  lectures, 
for  some  years,  notably  about  Shakespeare’s  country,  with  which 
he  was  intimate  from  frequent  pilgrimages,  often  in  the  companion- 
ship of  English  men  of  letters  whose  friendship  and  sympathy  he 
enjoyed  to  a degree  rare  indeed  for  a man  of  his  age, — he  was  as 
much  at  home  among  scholars  abroad  as  at  home. 

His  greatest  service  to  this  Society,  to  the  public,  and  to  the  fame 
of  our  founder,  was  his  ten  volume  edition  of  the  “ Works  and 
Correspondence  of  Benjamin  Franklin,”  only  recently  completed. 
It  was  a great  task  and  it  was  carried  through  with  characteristic 
industry,  devotion  and  critical  ability.  He  was  largely  inspired  to 
this  undertaking  by  his  familiarity  with  the  unrivalled  collection  of 
Franklin  Papers,  over  seventy  folio  volumes,  long  in  the  possession 
of  this  Society.  He  atoned  for  the  careless  editing  of  Franklin’s 
Works  by  Wm.  Temple  Franklin, — he  corrected  the  errors  and 
restored  the  real  words  of  Franklin,  so  frequently  altered  in  Sparks’ 
edition,  and  he  made  large  and  valuable  additions  to  Bigelow’s,  and 
that  venerable  and  learned  master  of  Franklin  literature  generously 
and  heartily  commended  his  young  successor’s  work. 

Professor  Smyth  had  in  contemplation  at  the  time  of  his  too 
early  death,  a popular  Life  of  Franklin,  and  a Life  of  Washington, 
and  historical  students  may  well  regret  that  his  life  was  not  spared 
for  the  accomplishmerfc  of  these  tasks. 

Elected  in  1886  Professor  of  English  Language  and  Literature 
in  the  Central  High  School  of  Philadelphia,  he  showed  remarkable 
gifts  for  his  task,  and  won  the  affection  and  admiration  alike  of  his 
colleagues  and  his  pupils.  He  was  constantly  helping  the  students 
who  showed  ability,  and  encouraged  them  in  securing  admission  to 
Colleges  and  Universities,  or  positions,  where  many  of  them  gained 
marked  distinction.  His  popularity  with  the  large  body  of  stu- 


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dents  of  the  High  School  was  an  unusual  tribute  to  his  ability,  his 
industry  and  his  broad  and  generous  sympathy  with  all  who  shared 
his  love  of  study. 

His  “ Shakespeare’s  Pericles  and  Apollonius  of  Tyre,”  a study 
in  Comparative  Literature,  was  the  outcome  of  his  Johns  Hopkins 
thesis  for  his  M.A.  degree,— recast  and  expanded,  it  was  read  before 
the  American  Philosophical  Society  and  was  printed  in  volume 
thirty-seven  of  its  Proceedings.  Reprinted  in  1898,  it  obtained 
great  praise  from  competent  Shakespearean  critics  at  home  and 
abroad,  and  it  is  a monument  of  his  learning  and  critical  ability. 
As  he  said  in  reply  to  some  verbal  criticism  of  his  frequent  use  of 
Shakespearean  words  and  phrases,  .“  A student’s  nature  is  soon  sub- 
dued to  what  it  works  in,  like  the  dyer’s  hand,  and  I have  worked 
in  Shakespeare,  steeping  myself  in  his  language,  until  unconsciously 
I use  words  and  phrases  which  are,  to  me,  rich  in  suggestion  and 
association,”  and  he  made  good  use  of  his  mastery  of  Shakespere. 

His  great  work  was  his  “ Writings  of  Franklin.”  It  was  the 
most  effective  and  important  tribute  to  Franklin’s  Bicentenary, 
so  well  celebrated  by  this  and  kindred  societies,  founded  by  Frank- 
lin and  of  which  he  was  a member.  The  ten  volumes  of  Franklin 
will  be  a lasting  monument  of  Professor  Smyth’s  industry,  research 
and  critical  acumen.  He  unearthed  new  material  at  home  and 
abroad  to  the  extent  of  three  hundred  and  eighty-five  letters  and 
forty  papers  all  from  Franklin’s  pen,  and  not  printed  by  any 
previous  editor;  he  corrected  more  than  tyyo  thousand  errors 
in  earlier  editions,  and  restored  the  text  so  much  altered  by 
Sparks  in  his  mistaken  notion  of  improving  Franklin’s  racy  and 
vigorous  English.  He  found  new  material  in  public  and  private 
collections,  in  that  recently  acquired  by  the  Library  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  as  a tribute  to  its  great  founder,  and  in  public 
archives  at  home  and  abroad,  and  in  the  collections  never  before 
consulted  by  any  editor  of  Franklin’s  writings.  He  gave  a full  ac- 
count of  the  Franklin  Papers,  rescued  from  neglect  and  now  rever- 
ently preserved  in  the  Library  of  .the  American  Philosophical  So- 
ciety, in  the  Congressional  Library,  'and  in  that  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania.  He  gave  a bibliography  of  the  printed  editions  of 
Franklin’s  Writings,  an  analysis  of  his  works,  philosophical,  politi- 

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cal  and  economical,  of  his  satires  and  bagatelles  and  of  his  multi- 
farious correspondence.  With  all  his  zeal  and  admiration  for  Frank- 
lin, and  his  ability  in  so  many  directions,  scientific,  economic,  poli- 
tical, diplomatic,  financial  and  social,  Professor  Smyth  put  a proper 
limit  and  restriction  upon  the  reproduction  of  some  of  Franklin’s 
writings,  as  unfitted  for  the  public  of  today,  and  of  some  public 
papers  wrongly  attributed  to  Franklin  or  that  have  lost  their 
value  and  interest.  What  he  gives  shows  Franklin  at  his  best,  and 
justifies  that  admiration  of  him  as  a man  and  a philosopher,  as  a 
statesman  and  a diplomatist,  which  has  made  Franklin’s  fame  world 
wide. 

Smyth’s  Franklin  is  a work  of  great  and  lasting  value,  it  is  the 
definitive  edition  of  his  writings,  for  the  editor  gave  to  it  the  best 
results  of  modern  literary  canons  as  to  the  right  way  to  edit  the 
writings  of  so  marked  and  individual  a man  as  Franklin.  In  these 
days  of  sound  historical  methods,  and  in  absolute  adhesion  to  the 
fixed  rule  to  give  the  words  of  the  original  text  of  letters  and  other 
writings,  Professor  Smyth  edited  Franklin’s  Writings,  with  a 
fidelity  that  commends  his  edition  to  all  students.  The  Index,  that 
trying  test  for  all  editors,  is  so  complete  and  exhaustive  that  an 
inquirer  can  easily  find  every  item  of  Franklin’s  multifarious  writ- 
ings under  subject,  place,  correspondent  or  other  proper  heading. 
Professor  Smyth  unburied  the  earliest  of  Franklin’s  writings,  the 
newspaper  articles  which  first  revealed  his  remarkable  ability,  fol- 
lowed his  many  notable  publications,  illuminated  his  widely  scattered 
correspondence  by  judicious  notes,  compressing  in  many  of  them  in 
a few  lines,  the  result  of  many  and  far  reaching  investigations. 
He  showed  critical  care  alike  in  exclusion,  inclusion  and  explana- 
tion. 

His  “ Life  of  Franklin  ” was  all  too  short,  and  he  had  planned 
to  use  his  large  knowledge  in  the  preparation  of  a Life  of  Franklin, 
free  from  the  restraint  of  space  prescribed  by  the  publishers  of  his 
“ Franklin’s  Writings,”  and  in  it  he  would  have  used  that  intimate 
knowledge  of  Franklin  which  he  showed  in  frequent  addresses,  in 
some  magazine  articles,  and  in  lectures,  and  particularly  in  his 
masterly  and  eloquent  oration  on  the  unveiling  of  the  statue  of 
Franklin  in  Paris,  the  work  of  a Philadelphia  artist,  Boyle,  the 


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gift  of  an  old  resident  of  Philadelphia,  Mr.  John  H.  Harjes, — 
on  April  27,  1906,  in  the  Trocadero.  In  the  presence  of  a great 
audience,  Professor  Smyth  added  to  his  reputation  by  an  oration 
on  Franklin  that  won  the  plaudits  of  the  foremost  French  men 
gathered  together  to  honor  Franklin’s  memory.  That  he  was  chosen 
by  President  Roosevelt  to  make  the  address  of  presentation  of 
the  Franklin  statue,  was  another  tribute  to  his  successful  work  as 
the  editor  of  “ Franklin’s  Writings,”  and  brought  home  to  French 
statesmen  and  men  of  letters,  the  wisdom  of  the  choice  made  by 
President  Roosevelt,  himself  an  historian  well  qualified  to  select 
the  best  man. 

Professor  Smyth  had  a legion  of  admirers  abroad, — he  made 
almost  annual  pilgrimages  to  great  historical  shrines,-  and  had 
hosts  of  friends  among  the  foremost  men  of  letters  in  Great 
Britain,  in  Germany  and  in  France, — he  had  found  sympathetic 
fellow  students  in  Russia  and  Poland,  in  Greece  and  Italy.  He 
knew  Stratford  on  Avon  as  he  knew  Shakespeare,  thoroughly,  and 
in  London  literary  clubs,  in  the  great  Libraries  of  London  and  the 
English  Universities,  in  Paris  and  Berlin,  he  was  a familiar  visitor, 
known  as  a sound  student,  and  welcomed  for  his  many  and  varied 
gifts;  alike  in  speech  and  familiar  letters  he  showed  his  mastery  of 
English  literature,  and  in  his  many  lectures,  his  wonderful  memory 
was  always  helpful  to  his  great  gift  of  eloquence. 

As  a lecturer  in  University  Extension  and  Free  Library  courses 
and  on  other  occasions,  he  was  heard  by  thousands,  and  always 
with  delight  and  instruction.  Under  the  pressure  of  the  hard  work 
on  his  ten  volume  Franklin,  he  was  obliged  to  curtail  his  lectures, 
but  in  the  few  given  by  him  during  the  last  winter,  he  seemed  to 
find  relaxation  from  his  Franklin  and  from  his  High  School  work, 
in  delightful  lectures  on  the  literature  and  the  literary  men  and 
shrines  with  which  he  was  so  familiar.  Gifted  with  a fine  presence 
and  an  admirable  voice,  his  lectures  were  a source  of  infinite  pleasure 
and  of  much  solid  instruction. 

He  gave  to  the  Philosophical  Society  two  capital  memorial  ad- 
dresses, one  on  Dr.  Daniel  G.  Brinton,  the  other  on  Henry  Phillips, 
Jr.,  both  scholars  and  men  who  had  given  much  of  their  best  work 
to  this  Society,  and  Professor  Smyth’s  tributes  were  well  worthy 


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of  the  subjects.  His  many  avocations  were  always  so  arranged  as 
to  allow  him  to  be  a frequent  attendant  at  the  meetings  of  the 
Society  and  its  committees ; his  share  in  its  annual  meetings  was 
an  active  one,  and  all  who  heard  his  brief,  incisive,  witty  and  well 
turned  addresses  in  introducing  the  speakers  at  its  last  Annual 
Dinner,  felt  that  the  death  of  such  a man  at  the  age  of  forty-three, 
was  indeed  a great  loss  and  a lasting  sorrow. 

That  such  a man  as  Albert  Smyth,  with  his  vigor  and  outspoken 
courage,  should  have  enemies  was  natural,  and  to  their  discredit 
rather  than  to  his,  for  he  outlived  the  attacks  made  upon  him,  and 
showed  that  there  was  little  or  no  foundation  for  them,  by  the 
amount  and  excellence  of  his  work,  by  the  appreciation  of  his  col- 
leagues and  pupils  at  the  High  School,  and  by  the  admiration  of 
all  who  were  associated  with  him  in  his  many  fields  of  activity. 
Life  seemed  just  bringing  him  the  best  fruits  of  his  laborious 
youth, — he  was  asked  by  Publishers  to  undertake  more  literary 
work,  and  with  each  year  this  became  easier  to  him,  for  his  large 
store  of  learning  was  always  at  his  call.  One  of  our  great  Uni- 
versities was  about  to  call  him  to  succeed  a well  recognized  leader 
in  history  and  literature,  another  was  about  to  confer  on  him  a 
degree  of  LL.D.,  and  it  was  thought  that  he  might  well  have  the 
offer  as  one  of  the  professorial  American  representatives  in  a great 
German  University.  His  only  doubt  was  as  to  giving  up  teaching 
and  lecturing  to  enable  him  to  devote  himself  to  authorship, — but 
the  end  came  suddenly,  and  now  we  have  only  his  literary  remains, 
and  the  recollection  of  a personality  that  attracted  all  who  came 
within  its  reach.  Wit,  eloquence,  learning,  many  unusual  gifts  con- 
centrated in  him. 

His  early  youth  up  to  manhood  was  one  of  much  hardship  and 
struggle,  but  he  was  never  embittered  by  his  hard  experience  of 
poverty,  nor  was  he  spoiled  by  the  success  of  his  mature  years 
and  the  praise  that  came  with  it.  He  never  forgot  any  kindness 
or  help  shown  to  him  in  his  hours  of  trial, — and  he  was  always 
watchful  and  helpful  of  the  young  men  who  came  under  his  obser- 
vation,— to  them  he  repaid  in  abundant  measure,  all  and  much  more 
than  all  of  the  help  that  had  benefited  him.  This  was  the  truest 
test  and  proof  of  the  sound  manliness  of  his  character,  and  this  it 


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was,  quite  as  much  as  admiration  for  his  gifts  and  talents  and  the 
good  use  he  made  of  them,  that  made  him  hosts  of  friends  and  en- 
deared him  to  them. 

Mr.  John  Bigelow,  the  leading  authority  on  Franklin  and  the  man 
who  rescued  the  original  MS.  of  the  famous  Autobiography  from 
oblivion,  wrote  of  Professor  Smyth’s  Franklin,  “ The  develop- 
ment of  the  scientific  side  of  Franklin  will  be  new  to  the  general 
reader,  and  the  lack  of  it  was  perhaps  the  most  conspicuous  de- 
ficiency of  all  previous  collections,”  and  again  on  the  completion 
of  the  work,  “ Your  collection  of  the  literary  remains  of  Franklin 
constitutes  in  my  judgment  one  of  the  most,  faithful,  conscientious 
and  thorough  pieces  of  editorial  work  with  which  our  literature  has 
been  enriched.  It  places  the  crown  of  glory  upon  the  fame  of 
Franklin  which  no  one  will  ever  dare  or  desire  to  displace.”  Such 
praise  from  such  a man  as  John  Bigelow,  himself  the  foremost 
exponent  of  Franklin  literature,  was  indeed  grateful. 

Of  all  the  many  and  touching  obituary  notices  of  Professor 
Smyth,  the  most  eloquent  was  that  of  William  Winter,  in  the  New 
York  Tribune  of  May  fifth,  the  day  after  Professor  Smyth’s  death. 
Winter  himself  is  a Shakespearian  scholar,  a poet  and  a man  of 
letters,— he  had  great  sympathy  with  his  younger  brother  in  litera- 
ture, and  it  is  admirably  shown  in  his  biographical  and  critical 
sketch.  I am  sure  it  will  be  welcomed  by  all  who  knew  Professor 
Smyth  and  admired  his  gifts. 

“ Albert  Henry  Smyth.1 

“ One  of  the  noblest  minds,  one  of  the  gentlest  spirits,  one  of  the 
most  auspicious  lives  in  American  literature,  passes  from  this  world, 
in  the  death  of  Albert  Henry  Smyth,  which  befell  yesterday  morn- 
ing in  Philadelphia.  To  those  who  intimately  knew  him  the  news 
of  this  sudden  bereavement  brings  with  it  a shock  so  dreadful  as 
almost  to  paralyze  thought  and  make  any  sort  of  commemorative 
word  impossible.  He  was  in  the  prime  of  life : he  was  in  the 
affluence  of  enjoyment  and  hope:  he  had  just  completed  and  pub- 
lished his  superb  edition  of  the  works  of  Franklin,  together  with 
his  Life  of  that  statesman : the  echoes  of  his  oratorical  triumph  at 
Paris,  where  he  spoke,  at  the  international  unveiling  of  the  statue 
of  the  great  philosopher,  had  not  died  away:  he  had  gained  an  un- 

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fading  laurel  of  fame : he  was  surrounded  with  affectionate  friends : 
he  was  richly  honored : he  was  dearly  loved : and  the  pathway  to 
yet  more  splendid  achievements  in  letters  and  a yet  wider  circle 
and  ampler  wealth  of  friends  and  of  honors  seemed  opening  before 
him,  in  one  long  vista  of  golden  promise.  His  vitality,  alike  of 
body  and  mind,  was  so  extraordinary  that  no  thought  of  death  could 
ever  be  associated  with  him.  He  seemed  formed  to  lead  battalions 
of  thought  and  to  endure  forever.  His  countenance  was  the  beacon 
light  of  hope  and  joy.  He  animated  every  mind  with  which  he 
came  in  contact.  He  dissipated  all  doubts  of  a glorious  future, 
and  he  dispelled  all  dejection.  He  was  a ripe  and  thorough  scholar, 
and  he  used  his  scholarship  to  cheer  the  onward  march,  and  not 
to  dispense  gloom.  He  was  a natural  orator.  He  possessed  a 
wonderful  memory,  and  it  was  richly  stored  with  knowledge  of  the 
classic  literature  of  all  lands.  It  is  doubtful  whether,  in  this  re- 
spect, his  equal  exists  among  American  men  of  letters.  He  was 
a reverent  student  of  Shakespeare,  and  he  was  entirely  competent 
as  a Shakespeare  scholar.  Among  his  works  there  is  a most  ad- 
mirable book  on  “ Pericles  and  Apollonius/’  Pie  wrote  a life  of 
“ Bayard  Taylor  ” and  a charming  book  upon  the  magazines  of 
Philadelphia  and  the  literary  movement  in  that  old  city — which  he 
so  much  loved  and  in  which  he  will  be  so  deeply  mourned  and  so 
tenderly  remembered.  His  ambition  was  to  excel  in  learning  and 
to  augment  the  excellence  of  American  literature.  He  always 
advocated  the  right.  He  abhorred  and  denounced  all  the  “ crank  ” 
movements  of  the  day,  and  all  the  efforts  now  in  progress  to  corrupt 
the  pure  stream  of  literature  with  erotic  mush.  In  one  word,  he 
was  all  that  is  meant  by  gentleman.  Our  society  can  ill  afford  to 
lose  such  a man  as  Albert  Henry  Smyth.  Intellectual  men  find 
the  strife  of  this  world  very  hard,  advocating  that  which  is  right, 
but  the  best  that  any  thinking  worker  can  do  is  to  follow  in  his 
footsteps.  The  loss  of  him  is  unspeakable — but  his  example 
remains. 


“ W.  W.” 


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Some  of  the  Subjects  of  Professor  Smyth’s  Lectures. 

As  characteristic  of  the  width  and  breadth  of  his  studies,  the 
following  list  will  show  how  far  reaching  were  his  lectures,  the 
fruit  of  much  reading  and  study. 

Franklin;  Pepys;  Thos.  Love  Peacock;  Modern  Polish  Litera- 
ture ; Modern  Symbolists ; American  Literature ; English  Literature ; 
Shakespeare;  Shakespeare  Readings;  Burns  and  Scott;  The  Lake 
School  and  Country;  Nineteenth  Century  Authors;  Literary  Me- 
morials of  Philadelphia ; Irving  and  ' Cooper ; Hawthorne  and  Poe ; 
Whittier ; The  Argonauts  of  ’49 ; Lowell ; The  Land  of  Shakespeare ; 
Shakespeare  as  a Dramatic  Artist,  illustrated  by  an  exposition  of 
the  construction  of  the  Merchant  of  Venice  and  Midsummer  Night’s 
Dream,  Hamlet,  Macbeth  and  King  Lear. 

American  Literature  : — The  Colonial  Period ; The  Revolutionary 
Period;  Washington  Irving  and  the  New  York  Writers;  Emerson 
and  the  awakening  of  New  England;  Hawthorne  and  Poe;  Lowell 
and  American  Culture ; Burns,  Scott  and  the  Lake  Poets ; Bayard 
Taylor;  The  Land  of  Burns  and  Scott;  Wordsworth;  Coleridge; 
Southey,  Wilson  and  De  Quincey,  Harriet  Martineau,  the  Arnolds, 
Ruskin  and  Wm.  Watson. 

English  Literature  from  Shakespeare  to  Tennyson ; Byron, 
Shelley,  Tennyson,  Meredith,  Hardy,  Kipling. 

This  is  but  part  of  the  lecture  courses  given  by  Professor  Smyth 
from  1890  to  1907,  and  not  only  in  Philadelphia  and  its  neighbor- 
hood, but  in  many  distant  localities. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  ALBERT  HENRY  SMYTH. 

Bayard  Taylor.  (American  men  of  letters.)  1896. 

Philadelphia  Magazines  and  Their  Contributors.  1892. 

Shakespeare’s  Pericles  and  Apollonius  of  Tyre,  a Study  in  Comparative 
Literature.  1898. 

Syllabus  of  a Course  of  Six  Lectures  on  American  Literature.  (Ameri- 
can Society  for  the  Extension  of  University  Teaching.)  University 
extension  lectures,  syllabi.  1890-96.  Ser.  A. 

Syllabus  of  a Course  of  Six  Lectures  on  Bayard  Taylor  and  his  Friends. 
(American  Society  for  the  Extension  of  University  Teaching.)  Uni- 
versity extension  lectures  syllabi.  1890-96.  Ser.  D. 

Syllabus  of  a Course  of  Six  Lectures  on  English  Literature.  (Ameri- 
can Society  for  the  Extension  of  University  Teaching.)  University  ex- 
tension lectures,  syllabi.  1890-96.  Ser.  A. 


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ROSENGARTEN— ALBERT  HENRY  SMITH. 


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Obituary. Notice  of  Henry  Phillips,  Jr.  (Proceedings  of  American  Philo- 
sophical Soc.,  Memorial  Volume  1,  p.  26-35.) 

Franklin,  Benjamin,  Writings.  10  v.  1905-07.  Macmillan,  N.  Y. 

American  Literature.  Philadelphia  (Eldredge),  1889. 

Pope’s  Homer’s  Iliad.  1899.  Macmillan,  New  York. 

Burke’s  Letter  to  a Noble  Lord.  1898.  Ginn  and  Co.,  Boston. 

Syllabus  of  a course  of  six  lectures  on  Shakespeare.  (American  So- 
ciety for  the  Extension  of  University  Teaching.  University  extension 
lectures,  syllabi  1897-98.) 

Halliwell-Phillipps  Collection : An  Address  delivered  before  the  Penn- 
sylvania Library  Club,  January,  1895  in  Pennsylvania  Library  Club 
occasional  papers,  No.  2.  1894 — to  date.  (Free  Library  of  Phila- 

delphia.) 

Benjamin  Franklin: — An  oration  delivered  in  Paris  April  27,  1906 — on 
“ Bi-Centenary  of  the  Birth  of  Benjamin  Franklin.”  Paris  1906. 

Daniel  G.  Brinton : — An  address — delivered  before  the  American  Phil- 
osophical Society.  Jan.  16,  1900.  (Proceedings  of  American  Philo- 
sophical Society  Memorial  Vol.  1.,  pp.  221,  etc.) 

A “Franklin’s  Autobiography”  with  notes  was  Professor  Smyth’s  last 
piece  of  work, — it  is  to  be  published  in  the  Gateway  Series  edited  by 
Henry  Van  Dyke. 


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